Top 680 Emptiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

When emptiness is still, that is eternity. When it moves, that is love.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

When you realize your own emptiness, that will be something, won't it?

The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Why does the feeling of emptiness occupy so much space?

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness.

Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness. Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins. Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought. When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away. But it doesn't go away. So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!

The usefulness of the pot lies in its emptiness.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

You can’t have two worlds in your hands and choose emptiness.

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Emptiness will always cripple me.

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.

Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.

Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

All the little emptiness of love!

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

Often to understand, we have to look into emptiness.

When you attain to an egoless emptiness great creativity happens.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Attain utmost emptiness. Abide in steadfast stillness.